New e-learning 'Food safety in the plastic packaging industry'

If you work with food, you have to work food safe. Similarly, if you produce food packaging materials, you must work food safely. How about this?

Not everyone thinks about the importance of food safety in the packaging industry. If a package is contaminated, it can affect the food and the consumer. And if something is wrong with the quality of a package, it can affect the food producer. For example, think of lost production because a batch has to be blocked due to a problem with the packaging. Or a recall because the packaging is out of order.

Packaging quality and food safety is therefore an important link in the chain. Certifications such as BRCGS PPM, IFS PACK and FSSC 22000 also pay increasing attention to these aspects and require employees to be trained.

Therefore, Précon has developed a new e-learning for the plastic packaging industry that addresses these issues. With years of experience in the food industry, the step to packaging is a logical next step for Précon. In this online training we not only pay attention to food safe working and order and cleanliness on the shop floor, but also how employees can contribute to quality food packaging. Because if the quality is not right, things go wrong during the packaging process at the producer.

What is food safe work? What should employees pay attention to while working?

An employee arrives at work. How does he change his clothes and wash his hands before entering the production area? And, what infections does he prevent in this way?
How do employees ensure that the workplace stays in order and that tidying and cleaning is done according to the rules?
What quality problems lead to customer problems and how can you prevent them?

In the new e-learning "Food Safety in the Plastic Packaging Industry," we address the above questions. Employees learn what kind of hazards can arise if you don't work in a food-safe manner. And they learn what rules to follow around personal hygiene and workplace hygiene to prevent these hazards. It also addresses why it is important for quality and food safety to regularly check the quality of packaging.

This e-learning is a good basic training for all employees of companies that produce plastic packaging for the food industry and thus want to meet the requirements of certifications such as BRCGS PPM and IFS PACK for training employees.